Seeing stuff like this reminds me why I got into computers in the late 90s. Human ingenuity paired with love for the art and the craft.

Good to have a reminder that it’s software engineering that has changed, not me.

``` How can people write big systems in general?

We do, but as you say, they're often debugged into existence rather than cleanly designed into existence. ```

A small window to how we used to spread deep computer topics in the 90s. No substacks or X posts. Very cool.

Wow, it's been a while since anyone published anything this interesting.

Good interview with McIlroy. Fix this: Goldstine, as in the citations, not Goldstein, as in the body text.

Also, the text mentions CDC 1620. I don't think this existed. Either it was IBM 1620 or CDC something else.

I'd be just as happy with clear readable type, but the content is the thing.

The mixtape is great. Not sure what genre this would be considered but it's very interesting

https://soundcloud.com/blotter1/blotter_tmp0ut_2026

This one was good:

Interview: Doug McIlroy: https://tmpout.sh/5/2.html

Cloudflare's captcha uses half of the obfuscation techniques from the code virtualization article, but in javascript

This reminds me that I have a stack of 2600 magazines in the garage somewhere. I need to revisit them...

- i like visual

- can we get a whole magazine that explains ideas like this? https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/

When I zoom in, the right half of the page becomes invisible.

Love the aesthetic. There was another ezine like this years ago focused on cybersecurity, I’ve forgotten its name now but the ASCII art involved was top notch.

Does anyone have any idea? It was definitely when Twitter was still Twitter as I remember reaching out to them about their ASCII art.

wow, actual hackers

Is the zero instead of capital O in the title intentional?

Very nice aesthetics.

I miss the ezines scene!

The interview with Doug McIlroy is incredible. It's almost worth a link all on its own.

Very cool and BBS/hacking style. BUT almost useless on mobile :(

I prefer to use a PC but that kind of articles are perfect to read when commuting.

You could just use <br> instead of fixed length words per line.

really missed an opportunity to make this available via SSH shell or renderable in lynx.

This is gorgeous; supremely impressive.

It would be great if you hacked your website to be better usable on a smaller mobile device! I need to zoom in to read, but then I also need to scroll sideways because of fixed layout.

You can do both, achieve a cool retro style and publish in a more modern format that supports multiple output devices.